Multiple Driver projects are currently in the works, Ubisoft has revealed. This confirmation is bound to be welcome news for the series' fans, who have been waiting for a new mainline Driver game for well over a decade.
The latest such entry hit the market in September 2011, arriving in the form of Driver: San Francisco, which was released alongside a 3DS spin-off Driver: Renegade 3D. Since then, the series spawned just one more title, a free-to-play mobile game called Driver: Speedboat Paradise, which debuted on Android and iOS devices in December 2014 before being removed from mobile storefronts a few years down the line. Fans have hence long considered Driver to be one of Ubisoft's many abandoned franchises.
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But the publisher hasn't forgotten about the series completely, having now told Game File's Stephen Totilo that it's currently "actively working on other exciting projects" based on the classic franchise. While the series' fans will likely want to take this as a signal that a new Driver game may finally be in the works, Ubisoft's statement was...